TITAN: Largest Saturnian moon. May harbor organic compounds similar to those predating life on Earth. Temperature is minus 292 degrees F (180 C). HUYGENS PROBE: Spacecraft is 8.9 feet in diameter ...
(SPACE.com) -- Europe's Huygens probe was quite alone when it set down on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, but two new videos allow viewers to hitch a ride aboard the spacecraft's descent.
and from that get an idea of the velocity of the Huygens probe as it went through the Titan atmosphere and how it changed with altitude, for example, and with shifting winds. It's just amazing at ...
Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...
THREE great works laid the foundation of modern mechanics: Galilei's “Discourses on Two New Sciences”(1638), Huygens's “Horo–logium Oscillatorium”(1673), and Newton's “Philosophise ...
NASA/Wikipedia After several space missions, humanity has made outstanding discoveries like colliding galaxies, black holes, ...
The NASA-owned Cassini-Huygens space probe completed ... to work with the data generated by the Cassini probe over 13 years of studying Titan. A trove of data still awaits full analysis, which ...
This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg ...
It was years after the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft wound down its ... Bistatic radar experiments involve aiming a radio beam from the spacecraft at Titan, where it reflects toward a receiving ...
The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things ... that have stolen the show for we know now that Enceladus and Titan are thought to have the right conditions for life.
Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...